Registration for the SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution is OPEN at this link geneculturecoevolution.com ✏️ DEADLINE 20th of June! Acceptance of short talks and posters and recipients of travel grants will be notified in two weeks.

📢📢 At the ESTER-project we're looking for two #Postdocs and one #phd student: https://ester-project.org/2026/05/01/the-ester-project-is-hiring/ 📢📢 If you are interested in demography, biological proxies, modelling and/or Bayesian statistics, have a look! Deadline is May 31st, this sunday! […]

Postdoctoral job announcement: come to Cambridge and work on population genetic modelling with environmental and ancient DNA, jointly with @gamzeandgursoy.bsky.social and me. Details at www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/55580/ - applications by June 16th.

What a week! I had a wonderful time at #CES2026 and I'm very thankful for the opportunity to hang out with such amazing people and researchers, learn about their work and present my own. 🧬 I leave Morocco the head full of ideas, the heart full of friendship (and the stomach full of tajine) 🙌🏻

Speed-running between amazing sessions at #CES2026 and different perspectives on shared cultural evolutionary questions feels like my life now. Some highlights from day #2.

Very proud of my PhD student Alexes Mes for her first archaeology paper where she has developed a novel Bayesian spatiotemporal model for estimating arrival times using 14C dates authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

We invite you to submit an abstract for a session talk or poster presentation!

🏺🧪Preprint of 1039(!) whole ancient human genomes from Britain, mainly dating to 1st Millennium CE, representing the best part of 7 years of my life. Herculean effort by @marinasdsilva.bsky.social to get this over the line. 'Migration Period' is more migrationy than we could have possibly imagined.

🚨FULLY FUNDED PHD POSITION!🚨 If you are interested in trying to answer the question of "How did climate shape the movements, interactions, and evolution of hominin populations?" Come join my lab at @humanorigins.bsky.social 🧬🧪 deadline 7th of June ⬇️ uni-tuebingen.de/universitaet...

The #HEIRS Group Synthesis Project 2026 call is now open! We invite #HumanEvolution scientists worldwide to apply for collaborative groups of 10–15 researchers, including at least one #ICArEHB member. Deadline: 18 June 2026. #ResearchSynthesis #OpenScience heirs.icarehb.com

ICArCHEB in Portugal has put out a call for proposals for HEIRS (the Hub for Human Evolution Research Synthesis). HEIRS supports collaborative research projects designed to produce syntheses of important issues in the field. A wonderful opportunity - link below heirs.icarehb.com/calls-traini...

“The evolutionary history and unique genetic diversity of Indigenous Americans” 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Super excited about this new paper by Akbari et al.! A lot of food for thought, I'll definitely give it multiple reads 🧬 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Graph transformer for ancient ancestry inference https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.05.714076v1

The Neanderthal population history and the introgression landscape inferred from the UK Biobank https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.03.716297v1

Check out our revamped preprint on partitioning the genomic journey to becoming Homo sapiens! Questioning whether modern and archaic humans should be considered as different species or populations. 👀🧬 www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

What a programme, I can't wait to see everyone there! 🙌🏻 and don't hesitate to come hang out in S32 on Tuesday if you're interested in bridging the gap between population genetics and cultural evolution 👀

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People https://theonion.com/archaeological-dig-uncovers-ancient-race-of-skeleton-pe-1819565415/

📣 New paper #2: The SASSI open dataset is a comprehensive spatial, chronological and contextual database of southern African ESA, MSA and LSA sites, providing a FAIR data resource for comparison and synthesis @icarehb.bsky.social openarchaeologydata.metajnl.com/articles/10....

📢 Another #jobalert from the new Cluster of Excellence HUMAN ORIGINS, University of Tübingen. 💼 Independent Junior Group Leader in Ethics Laboratory. 📅Deadline: April 6th, 2026 🔗 Link: shorturl.fm/EXRxc Please forward to interested potential candidates!🔄

SAVE THE DATE! SMBE Satellite Meeting on Gene–Culture Co-Evolution: Molecular Perspectives on Human History and Diversity 🌍 University of Cagliari, Italy - Abstract submission and travel grants deadline: 30 April - Registration opening soon - Conference dates: 21-23 September 2026

The Association of Greek Archaeologists has published an open letter withdrawing its participation from the EAA Athens advisory committee 🍉 archaeol.gr/anoichti-epi...

#JobOffer 💼 Postdoc in human evolutionary genetics and bioinformatics (M/F) 📆 May 1st 2026 📍 Institut Jacques Monod / Peyrégne Lab 🔗 Apply on the CNRS job portal before January 9th emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/U...

Our new ancient DNA paper has just been published! We present 28 new genomes from southern Africa - several of them high-coverage whole genomes. Exciting to be moving towards population-level representation of ancient southern African genetic diversity! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

‼️📢 Neandertal as prey‼️ We demonstrated selective cannibalism behavior at the end of the Middle Palaeolithic in Northern Europe #Neandertal #Prehistory #Cannibalism #MiddlePaleolithic #Goyet

A very special paper where we did something NEW! 🔥combining a large genetic dataset 🧬, a large linguistic dataset 💬, and Bayesian multilevel logistic regressions 📈, counting the effects of areal contact (geographic constrains) 🌎. Genetic admixture explains higher levels of linguistic exchanges...

🧪 By our colleague F. d’Errico: the evolution of cultural transmission over the past 3.3 million years! Outcome of a 4-year project supported by the GPR Human Past and by I. Collage’s yearly visits as a Visiting Scholar shorturl.at/EEK2S @univbordeaux.bsky.social @cnrsecologie.bsky.social

🧬 Over 1,000 years of history revealed from 3,000+ burials in Sint-Truiden. Researchers from KU Leuven & global partners uncovered genetic traces of migration, ancestry & the Black Death, powered by VSC 💻 📰 Read more www.vscentrum.be/post/discove... #HPC #DNA #Paleogenomics #Supercomputing

Discover our results of the largest ancient DNA study ever conducted on a single burial site: 400 skeletons from the Belgian city Sint-Truiden (8th–18th century). A unique glimpse into 1000 years of genetic history. (1/9) @kuleuvenuniversity.bsky.social

Fantastic paper in @science.org today revealing: 1. strong selection for cold tolerance in Beringia 2. gene-flow across the strait around 5ky 3. diversification of S. American lineages into 4 groups ~ 14k-10ky 4. followed by population crash of >40-80%

Had the pleasure of being interviewed by Bas den Hond at @trouw.nl about our preprint on the diffusion of mythological motifs around the world! He did a truly marvellous job, read the full piece here: www.trouw.nl/wetenschap/w...

@heliosdlbs.bsky.social had a poster about this work at #HumanEvo25 - fascinating study 🤩🤩🤩

🚨 New call: FRB-CESAB & HEIRS (w/ PNDB) will fund 4 projects under the IdeaShare & DataShare schemes – incl. one on #Biodiversity & #HumanEvolution. 2 yrs funding | Interdisciplinary teams 🔗 www.icarehb.com/opportunity-... #ResearchFunding

Incredibly proud that our paper on the #palaeoproteomics analysis of the Penghu mandible, led by @tsutatsuta.bsky.social and in collaboration with Chun-Hsiang Chang, Enrico Cappellini and co, is out now in @science.org! doi.org/10.1126/scie...

We're disappointed to see Ben Barres's powerful book "The Autobiography of a Transgender Scientist" among the ~400 titles removed from the Naval Academy Library. Needless to say, we're proud to have published his book and will keep it — and his memory — alive.

This looks useful -- A Dataset on Linguistic Connectivity Across and Within Countries #linguistics #languages www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated population https://go.nature.com/3QWkjOV

Our new paper reports a complete Quina technological system in the 60-50 ka assemblage at Longtan, Southwest China Ruan, Q. et al. (2025) Quina lithic technology indicates diverse Late Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia doi.org/10.1073/pnas... 🆓 faculty.washington.edu/bmarwick/PDF...

fascinating paper, congrats to all the authors! the model they present is full of potential, great prospects indeed

Really excited to see this work, led by Mike Grundler, published! It's a new method for inferring the geographic locations of shared genetic ancestors. In the paper, we and use it to infer the geographic history of human genetic ancestry www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

New Preprint klaxon - and calling all Danes+Brits who are interested in genetics+history - a new preprint led by Xiaolei Zhang in my group with Soren Brunak's group about genetic exchange from 1100 to the present day between UK (Britain)+Denmark. Read on for details www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

The lecture was based on this preprint www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... certainly exciting possibilities to understand Neolithic mobility & relationships #archaeology 🏺🧪

New aDNA preprint looking at 5th-7th century CE cemeteries from across present-day southern Germany. Generation-by-generation assimilation of people with diverse ancestries from across Western Eurasia as (presumably) formerly-Romanised populations move and mix. www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

Forcing authors to edit or retract papers simply because they contain ‘forbidden terms’ is damaging to scientific integrity, says ESHG Read the statement from #eshg:

Our papers, out today in @nature.com, show how ancient DNA from the Eneolithic and Bronze Age steppe points to a North Pontic origin of the Indo-European language family and a Caucasus-Lower Volga (CLV) origin of Indo-Anatolian (inclusive of the now extinct Anatolian languages). 1/

“The distribution of highly deleterious variants across human ancestry groups”. Preprint with Anastasia Stolyarova and @gcbias.bsky.social: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

2024 was harsh... but we made a thing: BiosS (Bioanthropology of southern south America) is our brand new research group 💪 You can see more details at: idacor.conicet.gov.ar/bioss-sudame... or follow us on IG: @biossud

EXCLUSIVE: NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with Trump’s orders | Science | AAAS www.science.org/content/arti...

Very interesting research on the relationship of cultural and genetic diffusion. Hélios (@heliosdlbs.bsky.social) gave an excellent presentation @icarehb.bsky.social yesterday. I look forward to the final publication.

Worldwide patterns in mythology echo the human expansion out of Africa https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.01.24.634692v1